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From the linked article:

"There is no democratic argument against a recount."

My rejoinder to this statement:

"There is no democratic argument that the laws governing the electoral process in Mexico should be shelved in favor of the political demands of one party."

That article just enraged me. Here we see an American liberal line of thought imposed on Mexico -- Lopez Obrador represents the poor and disenfranchised in Mexico and he is struggling to make an "unfair" process work. That's pure BS. Lopez Obrador is struggling to circumvent the law governing recounts in Mexico to either have the election he lost annulled or so that he can make Calderon's presidency appear illegitimate. There is nothing "fair" about AMLO's strategy and tactics. And even though the author of that article stated that AMLO "has a strong case," he never related any information about the counting of votes that suggested there was substance to AMLO's arguments. What he related was what took place during the campaign, not what occurred on election day nor anything in the preliminary and official counts the IFE conducted. And he noticeably left out the black marks on AMLO's own campaign; the expulsion of Cuban, Venezuelan, and Bolivian agents working in his campaign contrary to Mexican law, the receipt of outside funding from elsewhere in Latin America -- again, contrary to Mexican law, the use of the Federal District offices as campaign centers during and including election day, the pressure put on Federal District employees to support AMLO's political rallies, once again, contrary to Mexican electoral law.

The left knows how to lie better than anyone and that guy's article is a perfect example.

rovenstinez put up a link to that BBC article (see above somewhere) that was much more balanced. It pointed out that EU and UN observers both monitored the Mexican electoral process and said it was fair. It presented evidence of AMLO's intent to avoid the strictures of Mexican law. And it also pointed out that the PRD was using its control over the Federal District government to AMLO's advantage.

I hate the left. I really hate them. They will never engage in honest argument or permit a full hearing on the evidence. Never!

And oh, by the way, there is a recount underway. It has been determined by the evidence presented that the standards of the handling of the vote in some precincts may have been less than what Mexican law requires, not by some larger sense of the "unfairness" of the campaign. The law in Mexico is working. And the left cannot stand that the "law" is the means for settling differences.